Playmate Photo From Apollo 12 Up For Auction 211
Kilrah_il writes "When the Apollo 12 crew left Earth for a trip to the Moon, they did not know that the ground crew hid a surprise in one of the command module lockers: a calendar photo of Playboy Playmate DeDe Lind. Now this card is offered for auction, after being kept in the personal collection of command module pilot Richard Gordon, who added the following memo: 'This is to certify that the accompanying 4.5" x 6.25" cue card did, indeed, accompany me on my trip to the moon in the Command Module Yankee Clipper aboard the historic Apollo 12 lunar landing mission. This cue card, which flew with me to the moon, has been in my sole possession and part of my personal space collection since my return from the moon in 1969 aboard America's second lunar landing mission, and it remains one of the all-time greatest Apollo era astronaut "Gotcha's!"' For those interested, the minimum bid is $1000." Warning, contains pixelated nudity.
Warning, contains pixelated nudity (Score:4, Funny)
To the younger generations who are easily corrupted by things like the hot coffee mod, pixelated nudity is even more dangerous than clear unfiltered nudity.
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More like, it is not safe to view this at work.
I'm not bidding... (Score:3)
They finally figured out... (Score:5, Funny)
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how to get people to read the article.
Not really. Just like the Playboy magazine it came from, people might SAY they read the articles, but they REALLY only go there for the pictures.
I might also add that this is the first time I have seen an article here actually slashdotted in a while (can't connect)....need someone to post an ascii version of the image.
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Looks like a jpeg to me. Try harder.
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knockers in the lockers (Score:2)
In space... (Score:5, Funny)
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Sorry - not familiar with that term. Are you implying that no one can hear you shake hands with the bishop?
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Sorry - not familiar with that term. Are you implying that no one can hear you punch the clown?
Sorry - not familiar with that term. Are you saying no one can hear you choke the chicken?
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Sorry - not familiar with that term. Are you implying that no one can hear you punch the clown?
Sorry - not familiar with that term. Are you saying no one can hear you choke the chicken?
Sorry - not familiar with that term. Are you saying no one can hear you going to infinity... and beyond?
Extra-vehicular activity vs. Intra-vehicular (Score:5, Funny)
"Houston, I'm sending both of the other Astronauts out for a spacewalk. I found this Playmate photo here, and need some private time to have a wank. Ha! All you 'mile high club' folks can kiss my hairy ass. I'm halfway to the moon and having 'one off the wrist'! Beat that!"
Dick gordon had plenty of "solo time" on Apollo 12 (Score:5, Informative)
He was alone in lunar orbit for more than a full day while Conrad and Bean landed on the moon. If he took advantage of his solitude to "rub one out", he probably would have done so while on the far side of the moon, where his biomed telemetry couldn't be monitored by Houston. :)
His crewmates also had some porn stashed with them on the moon. Playboy images were inserted into the lunar surface checklists used during the moonwalks.
Lena Söderberg (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Lena Söderberg (Score:5, Informative)
Pixelated nudity (Score:2)
Useful content (Score:5, Funny)
Warning, contains pixelated nudity
I appreciate the warning, so I won't waste time clicking on it - what with it being pixelated.
Slashdotted by Horny Geeks (Score:2)
The site appears to have slashdotted by zillions of horny geeks.
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Not helped by the fact that lots of us are home from work because of the snow, and need porn today!
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If she was 22 when she posed... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:If she was 22 when she posed... (Score:4, Informative)
MY DEAR FRIEND:-
I know of no Medicine fit to diminish the violent natural inclination you mention; and if I did, I think I should not communicate it to you. Marriage is the proper Remedy. It is the most natural State of Man, and therefore the State in which you will find solid Happiness. Your Reason against entering into it at present appears to be not well founded. The Circumstantial Advantages you have in View by Postponing it, are not only uncertain, but they are small in comparison with the Thing itself, the being married and settled. It is the Man and Woman united that makes the complete Being. Separate she wants his force of Body and Strength of Reason; he her Softness, Sensibility and acute Discernment. Together they are most likely to succeed in the World. A single Man has not nearly the Value he would have in that State of Union. He is an incomplete Animal. He resembles the odd Half of a Pair of Scissors.
If you get a prudent, healthy wife, your Industry in your Profession, with her good Economy, will be a Fortune sufficient.
But if you will not take this Counsel, and persist in thinking that Commerce with the Sex is inevitable, then I repeat my former Advice that in your Amours you should prefer old Women to young ones. This you call a Paradox, and demand my reasons. They are these:
1. Because they have more Knowledge of the world, and their Minds are better stored with Observations; their conversation is more improving, and more lastingly agreeable.
2. Because when Women cease to be handsome, they study to be good. To maintain their Influence over Man, they supply the Diminution of Beauty by an Augmentation of Utility. They learn to do a thousand Services, small and great, and are the most tender and useful of Friends when you are sick. Thus they continue amiable. And hence there is hardly such a thing to be found as an Old Woman who is not a good Woman.
3. Because there is no hazard of children, which irregularly produced may be attended with much inconvenience.
4. Because through more Experience they are more prudent and discreet in conducting an Intrigue to prevent Suspicion. The Commerce with them is therefore safer with regard to your reputation; and regard to theirs, if the Affair should happen to be known, considerate People might be inclined to excuse an old Woman, who would kindly take care of a young Man, form his manners by her good Councils, and prevent his ruining his Health and Fortune among mercenary Prostitutes.
5. Because in every Animal that walks upright, the Deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part. The Face first grows lank and Wrinkled; then the Neck; then the Breast and Arms; the lower parts continuing to the last as plump as ever; so that covering all above with a Basket, and regarding only what is below the Girdle, it is impossible of two Women to know an old one from a young one. And as in the Dark all Cats are grey, the Pleasure of Corporal Enjoyment with an old Woman is at least equal and frequently superior; every Knack being by Practice capable by improvement.
6. Because the sin is less. The Debauching of a Virgin may be her Ruin, and make her Life unhappy.
7. Because the Compunction is less. The having made a young Girl miserable may give you frequent bitter Reflections; none of which can attend making an old Woman happy.
8. 8th & lastly. They are so grateful!!!
Thus much for my Paradox. But still I advise you to marry immediately; being sincerely
Your Affectionate Friend,
Benj. Franklin
... just a few things to consider... ;)
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Considering his reported behaviour while in Paris, he may have married old, but he didn't limit himself to having sex with old.
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http://www.lenna.org/ [lenna.org] (linked from the hilarious http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/lenpeg.html [dangermouse.net] LenPEG image compression page) has a photo presumably from her 1997 attendance at the 50th Anniversary IS&T conference in Boston.
If i could time travel..... (Score:3)
And replace any apollo era astronauts or ride along with any of them it would be the crew of Apollo 12. They had fun, a LOT of fun on that mission and swore and cussed a lot too.
Like a pirate ship, yar...
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From what I heard, one of the Apollo 13 astronauts remarked that the movie was pretty accurate to the real event, save for the swearing.
Take a look at the nude cover of Electric Ladyland (Score:4, Insightful)
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... by Jimi Hendrix.
FYI http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/06/Electric_ladyland_nude_front_and_back.jpg [wikimedia.org] probably NSFW in USA and other perverted jurisdictions.
Re:Take a look at the nude cover of Electric Ladyl (Score:4, Insightful)
You are not alone. 1966 through 1973 was a magical time. The sexual revolution was in full swing but the style was still natural, innocent and unconsciously sexual. There hasn't been anything like it since.
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I agree, I think that the women of the 60's and 70's were much more attractive than the girls of the new millennium.
I expect it's something that is entirely subjective, and therefore not worth arguing about.
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Interesting...and take note that the music inside said casing was so darn good that he didn't need to do that as a stunt, so presumably he had real good reasons.
Re:Wowee (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Wowee (Score:5, Funny)
You are not attracted to the unkempt jungle thatch of 60s era bush?
I thought the Bush era was 1988-1992 and then smaller Bush in 2000-2008.
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It could just be a trend in playboy. I've heard they shifted away from girls who looked "next door" to more glamorous. Or was it the other way around? I can't remember, don't care enough to google it at work. And no playboy models, past or present, looked like girls who ever lived next door to me.
Re:Wowee (Score:5, Informative)
Playboy's golden age was in the 70s. Those women were usually stunning with or without the paint and airbrushing.
In the 90s something happened and the publishers started using less attractive women with a lot of cosmetic surgery and makeup applied, and manipulating them more.
Now, who reads Playboy any more? There's boobs in half the pages on the web, xkcd does the funny, rotten tomatoes handles the movies, and if you want to hear from Hef you can tweet him.
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> Playboy's golden age was in the 70s.
Mid sixties to mid seventies. Around about 1977 is when the centerfolds started becoming overproduced, with unnatural poses in unnatural colors. The unnatural bodies came a little later.
> In the 90s something happened and the publishers started using less attractive women with a lot of cosmetic surgery and makeup applied, and manipulating them more.
Yes. Besides that, the magazine itself was starting to deteriorate. Production values got cheaper, photos
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In the 90s something happened and the publishers started using less attractive women with a lot of cosmetic surgery and makeup applied, and manipulating them more.
By "publishers" you mean "Hugh Hefner" who as far as I know is still putting every issue together himself, he certainly was up until very recently if he's not now. Did you see the blondie barbie twinks he had on his show? Blame Hef directly. Unless you meant porn mag publishers in general.
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The number of women who will pose nude is widening, and hairy is 'out'.
Also, photography techniques have improved, and Playboy didn't really do an photo touch ups in 1969.
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Is it just me or do women seem to have gotten prettier over the years?
Not to be rude or anything, but todays girls just seem cuter.
There are exceptions of course - but I spy a trend...
It could be just that styles change. But more likely that photoshop makes the airbrush look like stone knives and bear skins.
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Well, there's more of them to choose from.
And women's standards for acceptable conduct have changed, so more of them consider standing in front of a camera for money an acceptable practice.
And technology for manipulating their looks, in makeup and exercise physiology and software, has improved.
And photographers have learned from decades of research by the pioneers of Playboy how to make someone look better than they generally do.
And women have learned from the same sources what men really like them to look
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Let's not forget surgical techniques.
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Drat. I backspaced over that somewhere when editing that sentence.
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Stop judging women based on movies and TV. Check out the midwest -- the average woman is 5'1" and overweight.
Have the women in Playboy and on TV gotten prettier and prettier? Yes, but it's no different than the trend of professional wrestlers becoming more and more muscular. Population has increased, new medical procedures/work-out practices are taken advantage of, and the cream of the crop is oh so much creamier. But that doesn't mean that normal looking people ceased to exist, nor does it mean that, in ge
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It was the 60s. You couldn't just download stuff. You paid real money for paper boobies, and you took what you could get.
That aside, this chick has a fat face and appears to be wearing a wig. Natural beauties with better features and hair that looks real were plentiful back then I'm sure. Maybe Hef could explain how she got to be in the magazine (wink).
Re:Wowee (Score:5, Insightful)
They are photoshopped to remove blemishes, expand breasts, erase fat knees, give them flatter butts, and so on.
Give... them... FLATTER butts? Flatter butts, really, that's what men want today, girls who look like prepubescent boys? Sorry, I'm with Sir Mix-a-Lot on this one.
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Have you seen wonens jeans? they make their asses look like guy ass.
Nothing is more pleasurable than a woman with a shapely ass where the jeans cut in to show off each cheek. Jeans that bridge the butt crack are a crime.
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At least, that's what Hef wants today. Apparently.
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Hef doesn't run the magazine anymore. His daughter does.
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Nope, Christie Hefner stepped down in Jan 2009.
According to a recent (like last week) article, Hef is still CEO and still has creative control over the magazine. Moreover, he's currently trying to buy it back from it's current owners and take it private.
Re:Wowee (Score:4, Interesting)
Actually, anthropological studies show that men all over the world prefer a woman with a certain hip to waist ratio. The actual size of the woman is much less important than the fact that she has big hips relative to her waist. Culturally speaking, we may despise "fat" women and find them less desirable based on what others might think of them, but as long as she has a good hip to waist ratio, our cocks couldn't care less how fat she is.
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Personally, I like real women, warts and... no, on second thought, I can do without the warts.
Nipples too pointy, TRIM IN HALF?!? No, no, no, just... no. Do not trim the nipples in half, please. I mean, they aren't, like, two inches long or an anything, right? Because, okay, if her nipples reach down to her waist, yeah, maybe trim those suckers.
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Yeah, nothing turns me on more than a woman with a flat chest, flat butt, and no pubic hair! They don't look a day over twelve that way!
Re:Pixelated Nudity (Score:5, Interesting)
Why, somebody might be confronted with their Puritannical objection to the human form.
"If God intended us to be naked, we'd be born that way!" - Oscar Wilde.
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"Damn, that's a good hot dog!" - Oscar Mayer
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"Because God created it the human body can remain nude and uncovered and preserve its splendour and its beauty." -Pope John Paul II
Re:Pixelated Nudity (Score:5, Insightful)
Does that include people who are offended by other peoples morals?
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Does that include people who are offended by other peoples morals?
Only if they're easily offended by other people's morals. If they're offended by others' morals only when said morals go to great lengths to offend, then no.
Offence is a power trip. (Score:2, Insightful)
Being offended is a quick and easy power trip: it's a way to control other people.
"Oh I'm offended by your actions! And because I'm offended, YOU are the one that has to change their behavior! Because I can't be troubled to: turn off the TV, radio, computer; change channels or web page; not buy the book; etc.. And no, I am unable to monitor my children therefore; everyone else has to change their behavior just so my children don't see or hear anything that I may find offensive."
One of the biggest offender
Re:Pixelated Nudity (Score:5, Insightful)
Could you do us all a favour then and tell your "minority" to STFU? When you let them do all the talking, they'll naturally come to represent both them and you.
Getting back on topic, this story is more than a little disconcerting. I was raised to believe that the Moon landings represented the pinnacle of American gumption, values, and achievement. And now, all of these years later, we discover that this seminal event was corrupted by the presence of hardcore pornography. Maybe I shouldn't act surprised, but I always thought that the NASA astronauts were better people than that.
Read The Right Stuff. They weren't better men, they were adventurous men. Your mistake.
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Sorry, can't help it: "Seminal event". Har!
Re:Pixelated Nudity (Score:4, Informative)
Hardcore? It's a topless pic.
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Oh, toddle off. As a member of the moral community, I can definitively say that the vast majority of us have no interesting in micromanaging your life.
Could you do us all a favour then and tell your "minority" to STFU? When you let them do all the talking, they'll naturally come to represent both them and you.
Does this mean you don't consider yourself to be a part of the moral community? So how do you feel about genocide. . .
I certainly don't find nudie photos to be immoral unless they are of children or heinously violent acts, but I still consider myself to be a part of the moral community. Just like everyone else who refrains from killing not because it's illegal but because it's morally wrong. To exclude yourself from the moral community implies that you have no sense of right and wrong. Or, to put it another
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As for the first part of my post, I'm just sick of these individuals piping up with "I associate with these people but they don't speak for me" crap. Maybe if you spoke up more often, and to them especially, you wouldn
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>> And now, all of these years later, we discover that this seminal event was corrupted by the presence of hardcore pornography.
I can't find the original message, so must reply to a reply. I finally got access to the actual image and... Hardcore? Really? Really?? You can see as much on Miami beach these days. I suspect that the author either hasn't seen the image and is guessing at the content, or has a definition of "hardcore" that would include Vanity Fair, Elle and Shape.
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And now, all of these years later, we discover that this seminal event was corrupted by the presence of hardcore pornography.
Playboy is hardcore porn? Since when?
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Think about it ... you're talking about a person who has been brainwashed to be offended by ::gasp:: nakedness! Hell, they'd be offended if there was a Sears catalog on the mission without the underware section removed.
You expect them to know what "hardcore porn" is?.
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Playboy is hardcore porn? Since when?
Since they made Playboy TV.
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And now, all of these years later, we discover that this seminal event was corrupted by the presence of hardcore pornography.
Probably more seminal than you'd like to imagine...
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I salute you sir. I cracked a grin.
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Nice try, but way too obvious. 3/10
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Fantastic trolling-- the fake sincerity, the butt-hurt tone, the puritanical finger wagging hinted at in the phrase "you know where to go when 'the day' comes", the mis-identification of a nice topless model shot with the "hardcore pornography"...
Masterful troll, sir-- masterful!
Re:Nixelated Pudity (Score:2)
I still couldn't help wondering whether the warning was against the nudity or the pixelation...
Yes
Re:Offensive (Score:5, Funny)
Remain calm ma'am, a waambulance and two morality police cars are on the way!
Re:Offensive (Score:4, Funny)
Remain calm ma'am, a waambulance and two morality police cars are on the way!
Wow they work fast, having killed the link already.
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No, that was just 1,000,000 geeks all trying to place a bid at the same time.
Re:Offensive (Score:5, Funny)
As a professional care-troll, your lack of commitment to care-trolling offends me. Do you really expect anyone reading this pathetic attempt at trolling to believe you actually care about this issue? You, sir, bring disrepute upon the house of troll.
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FTFY
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I prefer the term care-troll, like care-bear.
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Would care-trolls eat care-bears, or just care-goats?
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Ah, I get it, it's Freudian! Or else I'm Freudian. Meh, I'm amused either way.
Slashdotted. Here are links: (Score:3)
Since the site is Slashdotted, I thought these links might help:
Google cache [google.com] takes a long time to come up, and won't show the image, but you can read the text. Click on the word Cached [googleusercontent.com].
NSFW google images of the model. [google.com]
Pixels for you to cover the previous images with. [google.com]
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As a man with common sense, I don't give a shit. And I wouldn't if it was a naked dude either.
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As a scientist, and a feminist, this offends me.
That picture looks like one of my grandma's college pictures, with more clothes. You sound like one of my mom's friends. And damn it, I am, well I was, a scientist too!
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That picture looks like one of my grandma's college pictures, with more clothes. [correction. Grandma's pix had more clothes] You sound like one of my mom's friends. And damn it, I am, well I was, a scientist too!
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Pretending OP isn't trolling:
"As a scientist, and a feminist, this offends me."
So bring a picture of whatever YOU like to fuck when you go into space. There should be more fucking (straight,gay,whatever) and less concern over what someone else faps to,
Die in a (old-school oxygen-rich capsule atmosphere, so we keep this on-topic!) fire.
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So bring a picture of whatever YOU like to fuck when you go into space. There should be more fucking (straight,gay,whatever) and less concern over what someone else faps to,
Uh, have you actually seen the size of those apollo modules? You'd be lucky if you managed to jerk off without elbowing your buddy in the face.
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direct urls:
http://preview.rrauction.com/content/images/scans/3223/3223557_1.jpg [rrauction.com]
http://preview.rrauction.com/content/images/scans/3223/3223557_2.jpg [rrauction.com] <-- note it just shows the rear of the card
Re:I'm offended too (Score:5, Informative)
Coral cached pics:
http://preview.rrauction.com.nyud.net/content/images/scans/3223/3223557_1.jpg [nyud.net]
http://preview.rrauction.com.nyud.net/content/images/scans/3223/3223557_2.jpg [nyud.net]
http://preview.rrauction.com.nyud.net/content/images/scans/3223/3223557_3.jpg [nyud.net]
http://preview.rrauction.com.nyud.net/content/images/scans/3223/3223557_4.jpg [nyud.net]
Lamness filter is crap. So to fill in more words... Blah Blaah Blaaah Blaaaah
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I can't either. Cue cards are usually not nudes, they're either bikini shots or clothed portraits sporting some kind of bunny logo. Will try accessing again later.
No, Apollo 12 didn't explode... (Score:2)
It did get hit twice by lightning, though...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_12 [wikipedia.org]
SCE to AUX, FTW!
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It did get hit twice by lightning, though...
God didn't like the porn?
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It did get hit twice by lightning, though...
God didn't like the porn?
No....he thought the lady was not hot enough and wanted to help!
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SCE to AUX, FTW!
Thank you John Aaron -- steely eyed missile man!
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Go ahead and mark me offtopic if you like-- I could use the negative karma.